Agents of Change - Audio and Video

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In “Agents of Change,” hear from students, faculty, and distinguished guests as they talk about their work in helping to educate and transform the global community.

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Promoting Community Development in the Spirit of the Black Panther Party

Poet and spoken word performer Charlotte O’Neal, also known as “Mama C,” talks about sharing knowledge through community development and grassroots organizing. She and her husband, Pete O’Neal, who founded the United African Alliance Community Center in Arusha, Tanzania, are former members of the Black Panther Party. This event was recorded on April 11, 2011 and sponsored by the Division of Arts and Humanities and the Department of History.

In this segment, Dr. Susan Reverby, an internationally renowned medical historian from Wellesley College, discusses one of the worst breaches of medical ethics in U.S. history. Between 1946 and 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service deliberately inoculated hundreds of people in Guatemala with a sexually transmitted disease.

In this segment, Dr. Linda Green talks about immigration law in Arizona and the realities facing immigrants trying to enter the country illegally. Dr. Green directs the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona.

U.S. military service members who served in silence or were discharged under the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy talked about their experiences as part of a November 4 panel discussion held at Lehman. In this segment: Aaron Tax, Legal Director for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

U.S. military service members who served in silence or were discharged under the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy talked about their experiences as part of a November 4 panel discussion held at Lehman. In this segment: Zana Edmonds, a Purple Heart Recipient and U.S. Army Veteran who currently is a Student Veteran at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

U.S. military service members who served in silence or were discharged under the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy talked about their experiences as part of a November 4 panel discussion held at Lehman. In this segment: Stephen C. Lessard, a retired U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Officer who is currently an associate in the Tax Group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

U.S. military service members who served in silence or were discharged under the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy talked about their experiences as part of a November 4 panel discussion held at Lehman. In this segment: Denny Meyer, a U.S. Navy and Army Veteran who served during the Vietnam War era. He is currently the National Public Affairs Officer and Veterans Affairs officer with American Veterans for Equal Rights.

U.S. military service members who served in silence or were discharged under the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy talked about their experiences as part of a November 4 panel discussion held at Lehman. In this segment: Krystal Phillips is a U.S. Air Force veteran and Lehman College student.

U.S. military service members who served in silence or were discharged under the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy talked about their experiences as part of a November 4 panel discussion held at Lehman. In this segment: David Hall, a U.S. Air Force Veteran who is currently Development Director and Information Technology Manager at the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN). Following his discharge under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Hall became a plaintiff in SLDN's constitutional challenge to the government's ban on open service.

U.S. military service members who served in silence or were discharged under the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy talked about their experiences as part of a November 4 panel discussion held at Lehman. In this segment: Assemblywoman Deborah J. Glick, a graduate of Queens College, The City University of New York, is the first openly lesbian or gay member of the New York State legislature. She was elected to an eleventh term in the Assembly, District 66, in November 2010.

South African activist Eddie Daniels talks about his fight against apartheid. Daniels protested the oppression of the apartheid policy by joining the Liberal Party, which was subsequently banned, and participating in the sabotaging of government utilities. He was captured and imprisoned for fifteen years on Robben Island, where he befriended Nelson Mandela.

Lehman Alumnus and OAS Scholarship Winner Recounts Lehman's Transformative Role in His Life

Lehman alumnus Elías Alcántara, who was recently awarded the prestigious Organization of American States Scholarship to pursue a master's degree in Chile, talks about how his Lehman experience has shaped his development as a scholar and enabled him to seize new opportunities. This interview was conducted in 2008, a few months before his graduation.

How much trash do you think 12,000 college students — plus faculty and staff — produce in one day? Turns out it's about a ton. That was enough to create Lehman's own "Mount Trashmore" — a pile of collected and bagged garbage that stood five feet high.

'Welfare Brat' Author Mary Childers: Hoping for a Different Future for our Daughters and Sons

In honor of women's history month, the Women's Studies program at Lehman invited Mary Childers, the ombudsperson of Dartmouth College and author of "Welfare Brat: A Memoir," to talk about her experience with prejudice and how we perceive and deny the importance of race, class, and gender.

In remembrance of the Holocaust, the Leonard Lief library at Lehman College, in cooperation with the Afikim Foundation, hosted "The One Soul Exhibition: When Humanity Fails." The exhibit commemorated both victims and survivors of this genocide.

Green Worker Cooperatives is an eco-friendly organization that is working to build an alternative green economy in the South Bronx. In this segment, Omar Friella, the founder of Green Worker Cooperatives, talks about the organization's mission and environmental issues in the Bronx.

Lehman anthropology professor Victoria Sanford has received the 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Professor Sanford will use the award to work on her new book, "The Land of Pale Hands," about post-conflict violence, social cleansing, and the murder of women in Guatemala.